Category: Ansible
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Creating And Using Execution Environments For The Ansible Automation Platform
As of version 2.0, AAP has replaced Python virtual environments with Execution Environments(EEs). In short it’s running all of your automations inside of containers. The advantages are many, but I’m not here to talk about why, rather I’m here to talk about the how. There is a lot of documentation on the various pieces(which I’ll…
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Ansible Automation Platform Configures Nexus 9K ACLs
There are some newer “ACLs” modules available via many AAP collections now that make it soooo simple to work idempotently with Access Lists on networking kit. I figured I’d show a quick example of using the nxos_acls modules against some virtual Nexus 9Ks. Video Demo Playbook And Files You can find the GitHub repo here…
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Provision Azure Windows/Linux VMs Using Ansible Automation Platform, Plus Post Provisioning
So not only will I be provisioning Windows and Linux VMs, but I’ll also be adding them to my inventory, doing post provision hardening, and doing a system scan. Having said that, I’m going to be doing “art of the possible” on hardening and scanning as those will absolutely vary based on your needs, so…
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Using Ansible Automation Platform For Post Configuration With Red Hat Satellite Provisioning Via Callbacks
That title is a mouthful. In essence, what I’m doing is: – Connecting my Satellite install to Azure so I can deploy RHEL images – Once I use Satellite to deploy the image and it is provisioned, the VM will contact my AAP server via a “Callback” – The AAP(call it Tower or Control, whichever…
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Windows Updates With Snapshots Using Ansible Automation Platform
I was recently asking my teammate Jimmy(who’s brilliant BTW) what he shows as a compelling demo with Ansible and Windows, and he he had a more complicated version of what I’m about to show(most of his stuff is over the top(with Stallone)). Video Demo Playbook Playbooks for Windows found here. In this simple demo I’ll…
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Cyberark Per Host Password Lookup In The Ansible Automation Platform
Cyberark Central Credential provider has some killer features with one of particular interest(for this article that is) which is the ability to have a different password per host. It seems pretty bonkers to think you can maintain separate passwords for 100 different devices, but CA does it, and not only that, it has facilities that…
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Using Collections With Ansible Tower/Ansible Control
Collections are the new hotness for ansible, so you should start adjusting to it now…that means I’ll have to start converting my playbooks little by little now. That’s because ansible 2.9 allows for both standard modules and collections to work in tandem. So do the thing if you haven’t already. You have multiple options when…